Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country

Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country honors Tewa people, art, culture, and landscapes, while drawing awareness to the erasure of the Tewa presence from the story of Georgia O’Keeffe in Northern New Mexico. Co-curated by artist Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Bess Murphy, Luce Curator of Art and Social Practice at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the exhibition features artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico: Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque.

While Georgia O’Keeffe frequently claimed ownership of Northern New Mexico, this land has been the continuous home of these six Tewa Pueblos from time immemorial to the present. Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country resituates the O’Keeffe narrative back in Tewa Country.

The exhibition brings O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects into dialogue with newly created artworks by contemporary Tewa artists to highlight themes of sacred spaces, belonging, identity, and ownership. Through storytelling and cultural exchange, the project will create a platform for learning about the past, present, and future of Tewa land, and the complexities of O’Keeffe’s own presence in New Mexico.

Participating Artists:

These artists have worked together for more than two years to develop and envision this exhibition:

Note: The spellings of tribal affiliations have been determined by each artist and reflect the wishes of themselves, their families, and their communities. As Tewa is still primarily a spoken language, there is inherent variation in these spellings; we choose here to respect the choices of the individual artists.

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Image: Michael Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh, Hopi). Disaster #8, 2025. Silkscreen on canvas, 58 × 90 in.